chums

The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, chums sits in the everyday tier.

Letters

58,636 words share the length

Syllables

1stress on the first

Anagrams

0none in this dictionary

One letter away

4chugs, chubs

Open English WordNet defines lemmas, and chums is not one of them. The nearest lemma it does define is chum — a close friend who accompanies their buddies in their activities. The rule that found it is on the sources page; nothing here claims a grammatical relation.

The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as ch ah1 m z — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.

18 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.

• becomes
• bums
• comes
• crumbs
• drums
• gums
• hums
• incomes
• outcomes
• overcomes
• plums
• rums
• slums
• strums
• succumbs
• sums
• thumbs
• mums

No other word in this dictionary uses exactly these 5 letters.

• chugs
• chubs
• chump
• chams

Same length, one position changed. <1% of the 8,636 words this long are a neighbour.

• 5 letter words8,636
• Starts C16,229
• Starts CH2,182
• Ends S
• 5 letters starting C

Tier: everyday. The tiers come from the English Speller Database and rank by list size, not by how often a word is used — see where the words come from.